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   Chad Adams to All   
   Issue installing   
   24 Nov 17 08:01:24   
   
   On a previous unzipped directory. Not this one.   
      
      
      
   On 02:00 24/11 , Chad Adams wrote:   
   >For that matter I have chown -R 777 * to ensure there were no permission   
   >issues. Same issue. And resulting error.    
   >   
   >On 17:37 23/11 , Jeff Smith wrote:   
   >>Hello Chad,   
   >>   
   >>> cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$    
   >>   
   >>Ok, you installed BBBS to the /var/opt/bbbs directory?  Who owns the    
   >>/var/opt/bbbs directory? It appears that you are running BBBS as user   
   >>"irc".  At a command prompt do a "ls -l -d /var/opt/bbbs" to see the    
   >ownership   
   >> and current permissions of the directory where you have BBBS installed.   
   >>   
   >>Here everything in /var/opt is owned by root. And here BBBS is run as user   
   >bbbs   
   >> and BBBS is installed at /home/bbbs and a "ls -l -d /home/bbbs" shows:   
   >>   
   >>drwxr-xr-x 58 bbbs bbbs 20480 Nov 23 23:00 /home/bbbs   
   >>   
   >>Which shows that /home/bbbs is owned by group "bbbs" and user "bbbs"  and   
   >>drwxr-xr-x means:   
   >>   
   >>"d" means the subject is a directory and not a file.   
   >>   
   >>"rwx" means the directory's owner "bbbs" can list its contents, create new   
   >>files within it, and descend into it.   
   >>   
   >>"r-x" means members of the directory's group can list its contents and   
   descend   
   >>into it   
   >>   
   >>"r-x" means other users can list the directory's contents and descend into it   
   >>   
   >>And a ls -l /home/bbbs/bcfg4 shows   
   >>   
   >>-rwxrwxr-x 1 bbbs bbbs 278528 Dec 13  2016 /home/bbbs/bcfg4   
   >>   
   >>The first "-" means that it is a file and not a directory.    
   >>   
   >>"r" means that user "bbbs" has read access   
   >>   
   >>"w" means that user "bbbs" has write access   
   >>   
   >>"x" means that user "bbbs" has execute access.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Jeff   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
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